From X-bit Labs: Foxconn Electronics, the world’s largest contract maker of various computer and consumer electronics products, said it would revise its manufacturing model considerably. The company would raise payments to its employees following an array of suicides among workers...

From X-bit Labs: OpenPeak, a provider of multimedia touch-screen devices and device management platforms, said Tuesday that the company had secured an additional $52 million of financing from existing investors and Intel Capital. The combination of equity, debt and working capital...

From DailyTech: File sharing services like Napster and LimeWire have in the past been targets of the RIAA and major record labels for allegedly helping users pirate music. More than one file sharing firm has been forced to pay millions in damages to record labels and change their...

From PC World: Grab your Dramamine and couch-sickness bags, Sony's long anticipated 3D update for its PlayStation 3 video game console will finally be available tomorrow.

In a post to Sony's official PlayStation blog, hardware marketing director John Koller writes "the moment is...

From CNET News.com: A third-party review of the code used by Google that collected personal data during its Street View Wi-Fi analysis project didn't produce a smoking gun but didn't put Google in the clear either.

Stroz Friedberg produced the 21-page report, a copy of which we've...

From X-bit Labs: Kingmax, a rather well known supplier of high-performance memory modules, has unveiled what it calls invisible heat-spreaders. Instead of using traditional radiators to take away heat from memory chips on modules, Kingmax proposes to cover the chips and modules with...

From X-bit Labs: The chief executive officer of Electronic Arts, the world’s biggest publisher of video games, said that it will take at least two to three years for stereoscopic 3D (S3D) gaming to take off. That said, it is highly probable that stereo-3D video games will get popular...

From InfoWorld: Cisco and Tandberg made their big post-merger entrance at the InfoComm conference in Las Vegas this week, promoting an interoperability protocol that will come on a product in July and introducing some other new products.

The $3.4 billion merger that closed in April...

From PC World: Sprint confessed it overstated the record sales numbers it cited for the HTC Evo 4G smartphone it boasted on Monday, according to a statement released by the company. The wireless carrier did not give any exact sales numbers initially, and it still hasn't stated how...

From CNET News.com: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday rejected a claim by TiVo that it owns the patent on time-warp DVR technology.

TiVo released this statement Tuesday: "While TiVo is disappointed with this recent PTO office action, this is just one of several steps...